Ann Weil - Geronimo

Feinstein, Stephen. Read About Geronimo (I Like Biographies!) .

Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow, 2006.

Haugen, Brenda. Geronimo: Apache Warrior (Signature Lives) .

Mankato, Minn.: Compass Books, 2006.

Sterngass, Jon. Geronimo (Legends of the Wild West). New York:

Chelsea House, 2010.

Sullivan, George. Geronimo: Apache Renegade. New York:

Sterling Biographies, 2010.

American Experience: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance.
Directed by Neil Goodwin and Jacqueline Shearer. PBS, 2007.
Biography: Geronimo. A&E Home Video, 2006.
Geronimo, American Experience: We Shall Remain. Narrated by Benjamin Bratt. PBS Home Video, 2009.
Native American Wars: The Apache. A&E Home Video, 2010.
Wild West Tech: Native American Tech. A&E Television Networks, 2008.

Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War
http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/02/telling-it-the-right-waychiricahua-apache-prisoners-of-war.html
Here youll nd a documentary of the Chiricahua prisoners of war as told by members of the tribe.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
www.nmai.si.edu/
Find information about the American Indians, including the Apache and Chiricahua and nd pictures of Geronimo.

A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures
http://americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/horsenation/guns.html
This website discusses the impact of the horse on American Indian cultures. You can also see a picture of Geronimo and the common ries used in his lifetime.

Too Long a Way Home: Healing Journey of the Chiricahua Apaches
http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/05/too-long-a-way-homehealing-journey-of-the-chiricahua-apaches.html
Historian Mark Hirsch talks about the life of Geronimo in this article from American Indian magazine.

George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004
212-514-3700
www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny

Geronimo Trail National Scenic Byway
211 Main Street
Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
575-894-1968
www.geronimotrail.com/

Gila National Forest
3005 East Camino del Bosque
Silver City, NM 88061
575-388-8201
http://fs.usda.gov/gila/

Fort Sill National Historic Landmark Museum
437 Quanah Road
Fort Sill, OK 73503
580-442-5123
http://sill-www.army.mil/museum/visit.htm

An Apache Warrior

By 1886 the United States had forced almost every American Indian onto a reservation . But in the Southwest, fewer than 40 Apache men, women, and children still fought back. The U.S. government sent 5,000 soldiers to capture them. But the army was really after only one man. His name was Geronimo.

Geronimo was an Apache warrior. He led other Apache warriors in battles against their enemies. White settlers were terried of him. To them he was a heartless killer who would murder entire families, even unarmed women and children. Geronimos own people saw a different man. To them he was a medicine man with special god-given powers.

Renegade

Geronimo fought against U.S. Army troops so that he and his followers could live as they had in the past. He refused to stay on a reservation. He hid out in mountains where the army could not nd him. He refused to give up his freedom to come and go as he pleased. That made him a renegade . For years the army tried to capture Geronimo. They never did. He outsmarted and outran the cavalry .

Did you know?

American Indian tribes did not want to be ruled by the United States government. They already had their own governments and their own laws. The U.S. government forced American Indians to live on reservations so that they could not interfere with white settlers. Many reservations were far from the tribes homelands.

Geronimo lived to be 80 years old.

How the man became a legend

Geronimo did kill many people, especially when he was on the run. But people blamed Geronimo for every act of American Indian violence, whether he was there or not. The newspapers printed many stories about Geronimo being on the loose. Some were true, but many were not. These stories helped turn the man into a legend in his own lifetime. Geronimos amazing ability to resist U.S. authorities and keep his freedom made him a symbol of the wild American West.

Geronimo did not start out as a freedom ghter. He lived a peaceful life. He had a wife and three young children. He also took care of his mother after his father died. Then, Mexican soldiers killed his entire family. They killed his children, his wife, and his mother. This tragedy left him aching for revenge.

Did you know?

U.S. paratroopers used to yell Geronimo! when they jumped out of airplanes during World War II . Private Aubrey Eberhardt was the first one to do it. He got the idea from the movies. He saw a Western about the U.S. cavalry fighting Geronimo. He yelled Geronimo! to show he was not afraid to jump. The custom spread through the paratroops. Later it even spread outside the army. Now people often yell Geronimo! when they do something daring.